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Revision as of 08:56, 4 August 2011
Automatic Integration with TECSYS
TECSYS and TrackAbout have built a generic integration that is in use with all of our mutual customers. The picture above shows the information that flows from one system to the other.
How the Tecsys/TrackAbout Interfaces work
At a high level:
- TrackAbout hosts webservices that are called by Elite
- Queue timers in Elite kick off calls to these webservices
- These queue timers can be run on whatever schedule you want to set in Elite
- It is typical for the timers to run twice a day or so.
- You can also use "Execute Now" in Elite to kick off the queue timers manually at any time
Integration Specs
The specifications for the integration are listed below. This is useful if you want to see exactly which fields are sent between TrackAbout and Tecsys.
Note that you can change the version (v=#.#.#) in the URL to see the specification for different versions of the interfaces.
- All data from Tecsys to TrackAbout is sent in this one interface:
- Asset Balances from TrackAbout to Tecsys
- Rental Invoices from TrackAbout to Tecsys
Some Specific Issues
Bill-to and Ship-to numbers
Today we're setup in TrackAbout like this:
- Bill-to: 007780 (We call this the "Parent")
- Ship-to: 0077801 (We call this the "Department")
TrackAbout requires that all bill-to and ship-to numbers be unique.
TECSYS is fundamentally setup like this:
- Bill-to: 007780
- Ship-to: 1
TECSYS requires that all bill-to customers be unique and that the ship-to numbers within a bill-to are unique. So many bill-to's can all have the same ship-to number. For instance many bill-to's can have a ship-to of "1".
To ensure that we don't have any problems in our integration, we will setup our TrackAbout numbers to have a Ship-to number that includes the TECSYS Bill-to number then a plus sign (+) then the TECSYS Ship-to number. This guarantees that all ship-to numbers are unique in TrackAbout. So the format is like this:
- TECSYS
- Bill-to: A
- Ship-to: B
- TECSYS
- Trackbout:
- Bill-to: A
- Ship-to: A+B
- Trackbout:
So if you wanted to keep the longer ship-to numbers in Elite for ease of training/conversion for your users then we'd set them up like this (This is what we've done at our other TECSYS/TrackAbout customers)
- TECSYS
- Bill-to: 007780
- Ship-to: 0077801
- TECSYS
- TrackAbout
- Bill-to: 007780
- Ship-to: 007780+0077801
- TrackAbout
Or if you wanted to switch to using short ship-to numbers in Elite you could do it like this:
- TECSYS
- Bill-to: 007780
- Ship-to: 1
- TECSYS
- TrackAbout
- Bill-to: 007780
- Ship-to: 007780+1
- TrackAbout
So one of the steps in your conversion to TECSYS is for us to convert your Bill-To (Department) numbers in TrackAbout to the new format.